Bday Party

When we went shopping for a gift for the party I asked Ethan to help me pick out some toys, I found a spiderman toy riding a motorcycle and asked Ethan if he thought that Dave would like it and he said, "I really like it!"  Emphasizing the "I," he said this several times trying to hint that he wanted one too, but I was good and didn't buy him anything.  So we went to Dave's birthday party on Saturday and the kids had soo much fun!  May be a little too much fun because when it was time to leave it was a bit embarrassing...Hope screamed when I took away the baby she had found and had claimed as hers and Ethan was crying loudly "I don't want to go home!!"  I finally bribed  them with cookies and they forgot about everything but the taste of chocolate chips! Here are some pics of the party...
What happened to the balloon!!
Ethan actually made several shots!!!  He's gonna be a pitcher...as soon as he realizes he's left-handed!

I used to love these things when I was a kid!  I remember one summer of the many we spent in Hurricane, Utah at Grandma and Grandpa Heaton's, for some reason ( I think Grandpa was watering) the whole yard was full of water and we slipped and slid across the lawn as much as our little hearts desired...those were the days!
The water balloons were a big hit with all the kids!
Ethan and Ammon chowing down on some food!  As you can see Ammon only cares about the grapes he is staring at!!
The Birthday Boy!! I was trying to get a good picture of him, but there were too many distractions!!
Ethan enjoying the yummy cupcakes!!  The icing was soo good!! I think Barb said that she made them herself..I'm not sure but they were good!
Hope's baby!!  hope loves babies, of course cause she's a girl, but somehow she managed to find the one baby in the room full of boy toys and cuddled with it and carried it around until it was time to leave!  (she almost tripped down the stairs on the blanket! Thank you for saving her Jason!)   It was a great day for the kids, they ran around and played so much that a couple minutes into the ride home, they were sound asleep in the backseat and didn't even blink an eye when I got them out.  Great party Barb!! 

 That night I had to go help take pictures at a wedding so Kim Moore came to the rescue and watched the kids.  She had Five kids there, Kelsey, Carter, Zeke, Ethan, and Hope..Crazy!!  Thank you Kim!!:)  

On a side note, I love the Burleson Ward! Everyone is soo nice and there are a lot of people my age there.  So I was disappointed not only by the fact that Hope got sick and started vomitting, but also because we couldn't go to church this Sunday:(

After eating we came home and he got a few more presents.  He wanted to sleep with his new toy!
Ethan getting goodies from the goodie machine.
Ethan opening his one present that we let him bring to the restaurant.
Our good friends Jason and Jessica Filina

Ethan's token smile at 17 months 
Ethan's token smile at 11 months.
Here is a pic of us.. Ethan is using his token fake smile.  He's been doing it since he was 11 months old.
When we came home from the party the first thing Ethan wanted to play with was his Sword!!









So.. the 8th was Ethan's real birthday and we decided to take him to Pancho's because Libby had told me how much Aidan had enjoyed going on his birthday. The Filina's came and made it that much more fun!! Ethan enjoyed it, he really liked putting the hat on and having everyone sing to him.  I made him another brownie pizza and the next morning he said , "I'm hungry... I want some cake!!"   Also, the birthday party at the bounce house went really well.. Ethan and Aiden both had a blast and all the kids that got to come enjoyed the place too! We showed a slideshow of cute pics of Ethan and Aiden and you should have seen their faces!!  Aiden was laughing and Ethan was intently watching for the next picture of himself to pop up while singing to the soundtrack of cars that was playing!!  It was cute... I even heard some of the kids humming the Cars song afterwards...I figured they would all like and know those songs!  Anyways, Ethan is a so great to have in our family, he's soo sweet and so fun to have around!  I love you Ethan!!! 

Wedding Pictures

Here are some of my favorite pictures of the last wedding we did.  I was actually there and took a few of the pictures myself! I've also done most of the post work.  I'm really very impressed and excited at the progression we have made throughout this past year and a half at the studio. We are doing so much and learning how business, in general, works.  It's challenging, but rewarding as well.

I also am uploading a wedding pamphlet that I designed.  I've designed about five of them all separated by category of photography...weddings, seniors,families, etc...

The picture on the front of the pamplet is my favorite picture out of all our weddings...I wish I had one like this from our wedding. I'm not sure how great these pictures are going to look because I had to downgrade the quality quite a bit to put them online so we'll see.  Anyways that's that for now.

Here is the invitation for their party.  I think it turned out really nice.  Ethan loves it and kept on asking to hold his "birthday" when we were in the car.   Today we went to a play-date at Bicentennial Park with Jessica and Ammon and a few other people from church.  I have never been there before and didn't realize what I was missing. There is a little splash pad were the kids can get wet plus slides and swings.  Ethan was really shy and Hope cried when I tried to get here to play in the water, but they enjoyed themselves overall.  Hopefully next time they won't be so shy.  Too bad I didn't get any pics:(

Ethan's birthday party is coming up. I just got with Libby and we are going to do a joint birthday party with Aiden.  So Sunday while Libbly was in town..to the dismay of Andy:)  We took pictures of them.. here are a few good ones.  I'm going to make an invitation with these pics.  It's going to be cute, but with everything I have to do hopefully we can get them sent out ASAP.  It's going to be June 28th at 6pm.  Yeah, I think the kids will have a lot of fun because it's going to be at a bounce house!